Charles Johnson's fiction
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- Publication date
- 2003
- Topics
- {u'1': u'Johnson, Charles, 1948-', u'0': u'Johnson, Charles, 1948- -- Criticism and interpretation', u'3': u'Johnson, Charles Schriftsteller', u'2': u'Johnson, Charles 1948-', u'5': u'Centro para la Promocio\u0301n de la Conservacio\u0301n del Suelo y del Agua Buenos Aires', u'6': u'African Americans in literature'}, Johnson, Charles, 1948- -- Criticism and interpretation, Johnson, Charles, 1948-, Johnson, Charles 1948-, Johnson, Charles Schriftsteller, Centro para la Promocion de la Conservacion del Suelo y del Agua Buenos Aires, African Americans in literature
- Publisher
- Urbana : University of Illinois Press
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- Internet Archive
- Language
- English
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- None
- Author (alternate script)
- None
- Item Size
- 644.8M
xi, 221 pages : 24 cm
Charles Johnson challenges separatist politics and tries to get beyond race as a literary category. In Charles Johnson's Fiction, William R. Nash emphasizes and explores the tensions in Johnson's work between his ideal of race as illusion and his methods of articulating racial grievance. Nash examines Johnson's short stories, novels--Faith and the Good Thing, Oxherding Tale, Middle Passage, and Dreamer--and the nonfiction work Being and Race. Tracing the themes of Johnson's political and artistic concerns as they evolved in his work, Nash locates his fascination with the aesthetics of the Black Arts Movement and his dismissal of separatist black politics and racialist thought. He also considers Johnson's adoption of Western and Eastern philosophies and belief that race is a blinding, limiting category that impedes the exploration of individual and collective identity. In formulating a mode of expression that balances the conflicting demands of race and aesthetics, Johnson crafts a new vision of history and African-American identity that signifies on a range of black and white literary predecessors, including Zora Neale Hurston, Theodore Dreiser, Ralph Waldo Emerson, Ralph Ellison, James Baldwin, and Herman Melville
Includes bibliographical references (pages 201-209) and index
Charles Johnson challenges separatist politics and tries to get beyond race as a literary category. In Charles Johnson's Fiction, William R. Nash emphasizes and explores the tensions in Johnson's work between his ideal of race as illusion and his methods of articulating racial grievance. Nash examines Johnson's short stories, novels--Faith and the Good Thing, Oxherding Tale, Middle Passage, and Dreamer--and the nonfiction work Being and Race. Tracing the themes of Johnson's political and artistic concerns as they evolved in his work, Nash locates his fascination with the aesthetics of the Black Arts Movement and his dismissal of separatist black politics and racialist thought. He also considers Johnson's adoption of Western and Eastern philosophies and belief that race is a blinding, limiting category that impedes the exploration of individual and collective identity. In formulating a mode of expression that balances the conflicting demands of race and aesthetics, Johnson crafts a new vision of history and African-American identity that signifies on a range of black and white literary predecessors, including Zora Neale Hurston, Theodore Dreiser, Ralph Waldo Emerson, Ralph Ellison, James Baldwin, and Herman Melville
Includes bibliographical references (pages 201-209) and index
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0252027736
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- Pages
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- 20190110165103
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- associate-hena-dalida@archive.org
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- 329
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